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From the Hullabaloo DVD. For those who frequently
ask, it cuts to Muse at the Weakest Link set where
they visited one day.
If 'Maggots' pointlessly insult Muse, your
comments will be deleted, and vice versa for the
Muse fans. Any attempts to conduct an arguement
through the comment system will be erased.
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A 2007 Titillating Horror SitCom
Where Psycho meets The Beaver
Leave It to Beaver hit the airwaves in 1957. The
show from which these video clips were taken was
the Pilot and never aired.
Jerry Mathers played Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver
Barbara Billingsley was June Cleaver, his Mom.
Hugh Beaumont would be Ward and Tony Dow, Wally
Cleaver, after the pilot. For the first, unaired
show, Casey Adams played Ward. And another actor
played Tony. Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell did not
show in the pilot, let alone Larry Mondello. I
think I saw Dennis the Menace's neighbor in there
too... !
So I asked myself, "Wouldn't it be interesting to
blend Alfred Hitchcoc's Horror / Thriller into
that sit com?"'
"No?" you say. Uh Ohhh - you must thus sit this
one out for that's what I did anyway
I combined Anthony Perkins as crazy Cleaver
neighbor, Norman Bates - along with Janet Leigh as
the other beaver, Marion Crane.
Enjoy !
Bill Stoll
StollCo Video - 2007
~~~
Plot summary for Psycho (1960)
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with
the way life has treated her. She has to meet her
lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get
married because Sam has to give most of his money
away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to
bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the
opportunity to take the money and start a new
life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's
California store. Tired after the long drive and
caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway
and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is
managed by a quiet young man called Norman who
seems to be dominated by his mother. Written by
Col Needham {col@imdb.com}
For Marion Crane, it's been quite an eventful
day. The day before, she had stolen $40,000 from
her employer's client, packed her bags and driven
all day on her way to join her paramour several
hundred miles away. Now, she is taking a relaxing
hot shower after her long day's journey. The
remoteness of the motel suit her purposes
perfectly. The only sounds heard are the chirping
of the crickets, the splashing of the water, and
her humming contentedly as the hot needles of
water caress her aching shoulders. Written by
filmfactsman
Plot summary for Leave It to Beaver (1957)
The Cleavers are the 1950's 'All-American
Family' in this 'feel-good' family sitcom. Parents
Ward and June, and older brother Wally, try to
keep Theodore ('the Beaver') out of trouble.
However, Beaver continues to end up in one kind of
jam or another. Unlike real life, these situations
are always easily resolved to the satisfaction of
all involved and the Beaver gets off with a few
stern moralistic words of parental advice.
Instigator and troublemaker Eddie Haskal is an
older kid who always manages to avoid being
caught.
~~~
Quentin Tarantino - Where are ya when we need you.
The perfect art for your team is this...
Leave It to Beaver
Leave It to Beaver is an American television
situation comedy about an idealized American
family of the 1950s.
CBS first aired the show on October 4, 1957, but
decided to drop it within a year. ABC picked it up
and ran it for another five years, from October 2,
1958 to June 20, 1963. It was produced by Gomalco
Productions (1957-1961) and by Kayro Productions
(1961-1963), and distributed by Revue Studios.
Premise
The show is built around young Theodore Cleaver
(Jerry Mathers) and the trouble he gets himself
into while navigating his way through an
often-incomprehensible, sometimes-illogical world.
When he was a baby, his older brother Wally (Tony
Dow) mispronounced "Theodore" as "Tweedor". Their
firm-but-loving parents, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and
June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley), felt "Beaver"
sounded better.
Beaver's friends include the perpetually
apple-munching Larry Mondello (Rusty Stevens) in
the early seasons, and, later, Gilbert Bates
(Stephen Talbot), as well as the old fireman, Gus
(Burt Mustin). His sweet-natured-but-no-nonsense
elementary school teachers are Miss Canfield (to
whom Beaver declares his love in the episode
entitled "Beaver's Crush") (Diane Brewster) and
Miss Landers (Sue Randall); Mrs. Rayburn (Doris
Packer) is the principal. In the early seasons,
Beaver's nemesis in class is Judy Hensler (Jeri
Weil).
His brother Wally is popular with both peers and
adults, getting into trouble much less frequently.
He letters in four sports and has little
difficulty attracting girlfriends, among them Mary
Ellen Rogers (Pamela Baird) and Julie Foster
(Cheryl Holdridge). His pals include the awkward
Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford (Frank Bank) and smart
aleck Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), the archetype of
the two-faced wiseguy, a braggard among his peers
and an obsequious yes man to the adults he mocks
behind their backs. Eddie often picks on the
Beaver.
The family lives in the fictional town of
Mayfield. Beaver attends Grant Ave. Grammar
School, and Wally, Mayfield High School (after
graduating from Grant Ave. in season one).
Cast
=List of Leave It to Beaver cast members
Jerry Mathers as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver. The
casting directors noticed that Mathers was uneasy
and asked him where he'd rather be. Mathers
replied that he'd rather be at camp. That boyish
youthfulness got Mathers the part of
Beaver.[citation needed]
Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver
Hugh Beaumont as Ward Cleaver. Before he made Ward
Cleaver his acting trademark, Beaumont sometimes
played villains in film and television. Most
familiarly, he played a former convict, Dan
Grayson, struggling to go straight for the sake of
his wife and son, in 1953's "The Big Squeeze"
episode of Adventures of Superman, a few years
before Beaver. He directed a number of Leave It to
Beaver episodes in the last two seasons, including
the final one, the retrospective "Family
Scrapbook". Beaumont was an ordained Methodist
minister, who from 1974 until his death, sold live
Christmas trees.
Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver. Billingsley
has said that June Cleaver's wardrobe was more
than a fashion statement. The pearl necklace hid
neck shadows and high-heeled shoes were employed
to offset the boys' growing height.
Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell. Osmond became a cop,
serving eighteen years with the Los Angeles Police
Department.
Diane Brewster as Miss Canfield
Sue Randall as Miss Landers
Stephen Talbot as Gilbert Bates. Talbot works as a
reporter for PBS' Frontline.
Rusty Stevens as Larry Mondello
Richard Correll as Richard Rickover
Stanley Fafara as Whitey Whitney
Jeri Weil as Judy Hensler
Burt Mustin as Gus the fireman
Frank Bank as Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford
Richard Deacon as Fred Rutherford, Lumpy's
pompous, demanding father and Ward Cleaver's
equally pompous, smug co-worker. Deacon was
working a second job for much of the life of Leave
It to Beaver; he was concurrently Alan Brady's
(Carl Reiner's) brother-in-law/producer and Buddy
Sorrell's Morey Amsterdam's foil on The Dick Van
Dyke Show.
Buddy Hart as Chester Anderson
Tiger Fafara as Tooey Brown
Pamela Baird as Mary Ellen Rogers
Cheryl Holdridge as Julie Foster
Cultural influence
Leave It to Beaver often aimed toward a moral
lesson and is referenced even now as an emblem of
simpler American times. Ward stated that his
father "had a fine sense of values",[1] and if
Ward himself sometimes seemed possessed of the
gentility of a man of the cloth, it may have come
from Beaumont's own background: he had become an
ordained minister before he took up an acting
career. June Cleaver, likewise, became a model of
the archetypal suburban 1950s mother who wanted
nothing more than to stay at home and take care of
the family.
The show strongly promoted the importance of
family. The recurring themes expounded parental
expectations for children, while the moral
messages stressed the importance of teaching
children proper behavior. Proper parenting
techniques and methods for resolving problems and
achieving consensus were demonstrated.
The pervasive influence of the show was the
subject of a theory proposed in 1965: that a prime
cause of the Watts Riots was "Television
Kitchens." A study was done of they types of
kitchens that appeared in TV commercials for
cleaning products and in sit-coms, like Leave It
to Beaver. Those shown on TV belonged in houses
worth far more than the average house at the time.
But these kitchens were being shown over and over,
day after day, to people whose own kitchens did
not match up. The implicit comparison was obvious:
"That's typical, and this is what I've got?" [2]
Episodes
The pilot episode, which aired on April 23, 1957,
was entitled It's a Small World.[3] It featured
Max Showalter as Ward Cleaver, and Paul Sullivan
as Wally Cleaver. TBS re-aired the pilot on
Sunday, October 4, 1987, to commemorate the show's
30th anniversary.
Syndication
After 234 episodes, Leave It to Beaver ceased
first-run production; however, the show didn't
stay off the air for very long: reruns were part
of CBS affiliates' lineups in the mornings for
several years to come. TBS showed it for many
years in the late 1980s, and now it airs on TV
Land—where it has been shown since July 1998.
Today, NBC Universal Television owns the
syndication rights and all properties related to
the series.
Spinoffs
A made-for-television reunion movie, Still the
Beaver, appeared in 1983. The main original cast
appeared, except for Beaumont, who had died the
previous year. Ward Cleaver was still a presence,
however: the film's story used numerous flashbacks
to the original show, as it followed young-adult
Beaver's struggle to reconcile divorce and
newly-minted single fatherhood, straining to cope
by what his father might or might not have done,
while facing the possibility of his widowed mother
selling their childhood home. June Cleaver is
later elected to the Mayfield City Council.
Its reception led to a new first-run,
made-for-cable series, The New Leave It to Beaver
(1985--1989), with Beaver and Lumpy Rutherford
running Ward's old firm (where Lumpy's pompous,
demanding father — played by Richard Deacon in
the original series — had been the senior
partner), Wally as a practicing attorney and
expectant father, June having sold the old house
to Beaver himself but living with him as a doting
grandmother to Beaver's two small sons. Eddie
Haskell runs his own contracting business and has
a son, Freddie, who is every inch his father's son
— right down to the dual-personality.
Feature film
1997's movie adaptation of the series starred
Christopher McDonald as Ward, Janine Turner as
June, Erik von Detten as Wally, and Cameron Finley
as Beaver. It was panned by many critics, except
for Roger Ebert, who gave it a three-star rating.
It flopped at the box office, earning only
$11,713,605. Original TV co-stars Barbara
Billingsley, Ken Osmond, and Frank Bank made cameo
appearances in the film.
The Cleaver house
The Cleavers' address for the first two seasons
was 485 Mapleton Drive, Mayfield. In the
season-one episode "Beaver's Old Friend", Beaver
states that the teddy bear (the "old friend") was
given to him by his aunt at their old house, which
implies that the Mapleton Drive was their second
home. The family moved to 211 Pine Street, also in
Mayfield, in season three. This house can still be
seen at Universal Studios, though with the facade
built for the 1996 production of the Leave it to
Beaver movie — the original facade sits in
storage elsewhere on the Universal lot (it was
replaced in 1988 by the Klopek house for the
following year's The 'Burbs) and is not shown on
the tour. In 1969, it was used as the house for
another Universal-produced television hit, Marcus
Welby, M.D..
Musical theme
The show's playfully-bouncy theme tune, which
became as much of a show trademark as Beaver's
baseball cap or Eddie Haskell's false
obsequiousness, was "The Toy Parade," composed by
David Kahn, Melvyn Leonard, and Mort Greene. For
the final season, however, the song was given a
jazz-like arrangement by veteran composer/arranger
Pete Rugolo. The lyrics to the theme song are:
Hey! Here they come with a rum-tee tum they're
having a toy parade.
A tin giraffe with a fife and drum is leading the
kewpie parade.
A gingham cat in a soldier's hat is waving a
Chinese fan,
A plastic clown in a wedding gown is dancing with
Raggedy Ann.
Fee fie fiddle dee dee they're crossing the living
room floor
Fee fie fiddle dee dee they're up to the dining
room door.
They call a halt for a choc'late malt or cookies
and lemonade
Then off they go with a ho ho ho right back to
their toy brigade.
DVD releases
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has begun
releasing Leave It to Beaver on DVD Region 1. They
have released Seasons 1 and 2 thus far, and it is
expected the remaining four seasons will follow.
DVD Name Ep # Release Date
The Complete First Season 39 November 22, 2005
The Complete Second Season 39 May 2, 2006
The Complete Third Season 39 TBA
The Complete Fourth Season 39 TBA
The Complete Fifth Season 39 TBA
The Complete Sixth Season 39 TBA
Urban legends
In the mid 1970s, Mathers appeared on The Tomorrow
Show hosted by Tom Snyder. Snyder pointed out that
he hadn't worked for a long time and that there
was rumor going around that he had been killed "in
the war in Southeast Asia". Mathers politely
replied that he had heard that rumor and that he
had no idea how it got started. The earliest
appearance of the story in print was in a student
newspaper at the University of Kansas in 1972.
Later the author admitted that she had only heard
the story from someone who had heard it a party in
Omaha, Nebraska earlier that year. The paper
printed a retraction but by then the story had
swept the nation and this silly rumor joined the
rest of the legends of Americana. The story was
later attributed to a member of a defunct Omaha
comedy improv group whose hobby was concocting
outrageous stories and then convincing people they
were true. "Beaver died in Vietnam"[1] was a
classic urban legend, memorable for its
juxtaposition of prelapsarian 1950s imagery with
the chaos and violence of the 1960s.
Another urban legend was that actor Ken Osmond
(Eddie Haskell) became porn star John Holmes.
Holmes took Osmond's name and did several movies
satirically under the name "Eddie Haskell". It
started because there was some facial resemblance
between the two men, which porn distributors
exploited by using the name Eddie Haskell in
advertising Holmes's films. "It was a pain in my
butt for eleven years," says Osmond,[citation
needed] who brought a defamation suit against porn
houses, producers and distributors. Mr. Osmond
launched a $25 million suit. The suit went all the
way to the California Supreme Court. The court
ruled for Mr. Holmes, saying the name was
protected as a satire. This case set a precedent
in the matter, and is still referred by other
cases in California today.[4]
In a Rolling Stone interview with rock singer,
Alice Cooper stated that he was "Eddie Haskell" as
a child. He was speaking metaphorically, yet some
readers interpreted him literally.[citation
needed]
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